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The 613 Mitzvot

The Talmud tells us (Tractate Makkot 23b) that there are 613 commandments in the Torah; 248 Positive Commandments (do's) and 365 Negative Commandments (do not's). However, the Talmud does not provide us with a list of these commandments.

Several great Jewish scholars have compiled a complete listing of these commandments. Although they all agree on the vast majority of the commandments, they do disagree concerning a number of them. The arguments are for scholastic purposes only, for they do not disagree over any actual commandment whether it is mandatory or forbidden -- they only disagree whether certain commandments are independent commandments, or perhaps they are part of another commandment and are not counted on their own.

The following list follows the opinion of Maimonides, as he lists them in his magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah. It must be noted that many of these commandments (such as all the commandments associated with sacrifices) are not practicable as long as there is no Temple in Jerusalem.

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1. To know there is a G-d--Exodus 20:2

2. Not to entertain thoughts of other gods besides Him--Exodus 20:3

3. To know that He is one--Deuteronomy 6:4

4. To love Him--Deuteronomy 6:5

5. To fear Him--Deuteronomy 10:20

6. To sanctify His Name--Leviticus 22:32

7. Not to profane His Name--Leviticus 22:32

8. Not to destroy objects associated with His Name--Deuteronomy 12:4

9. To listen to the prophet speaking in His Name--Deuteronomy 18:15

10. Not to test the prophet unduly--Deuteronomy 6:16

11. To emulate His ways--Deuteronomy 28:9

12. To cleave to those who know Him--Deuteronomy 10:20

13. To love other Jews--Leviticus 19:18

14. To love converts--Deuteronomy 10:19

15. Not to hate fellow Jews--Leviticus 19:17

16. To reprove wrongdoers--Leviticus 19:17

17. Not to embarrass others--Leviticus 19:17

18. Not to oppress the weak--Exodus 22:21

19. Not to gossip about others--Leviticus 19:16

20. Not to take revenge--Leviticus 19:18

21. Not to bear a grudge--Leviticus 19:18

22. To learn Torah and teach it--Deuteronomy 6:7

23. To honor those who teach and know Torah--Leviticus 19:32

24. Not to inquire into idolatry--Leviticus 19:4

25. Not to follow the whims of your heart or what your eyes see--Numbers 15:39

26. Not to blaspheme--Exodus 22:27

27. Not to worship idols in the manner they are worshiped--Exodus 20:5

28. Not to bow down to idols--Exodus 20:5

29. Not to make an idol for yourself--Exodus 20:4

30. Not to make an idol for others--Leviticus 19:4

31. Not to make human forms even for decorative purposes--Exodus 20:20

32. Not to turn a city to idolatry--Exodus 23:13

33. To burn a city that has turned to idol worship--Deuteronomy 13:17

34. Not to rebuild it as a city--Deuteronomy 13:17

35. Not to derive benefit from it--Deuteronomy 13:18

36. Not to missionize an individual to idol worship--Deuteronomy 13:12

37. Not to love the missionary--Deuteronomy 13:9

38. Not to cease hating the missionary--Deuteronomy 13:9

39. Not to save the missionary--Deuteronomy 13:9

40. Not to say anything in his defense--Deuteronomy 13:9

41. Not to refrain from incriminating him--Deuteronomy 13:9

42. Not to prophesize in the name of idolatry--Deuteronomy 18:20

43. Not to listen to a false prophet--Deuteronomy 13:4

44. Not to prophesize falsely in the name of God--Deuteronomy 18:20

45. Not to be afraid of killing the false prophet--Deuteronomy 18:22

46. Not to swear in the name of an idol--Exodus 23:13

47. Not to perform Ov (medium)--Leviticus 19:31

48. Not to perform Yidoni (magical seer)--Leviticus 19:31

49. Not to pass your children through the fire to Molech--Leviticus 18:21

50. Not to erect a column in a public place of worship--Deuteronomy 16:22

51. Not to bow down on smooth stone--Leviticus 26:1

52. Not to plant a tree in the Temple courtyard--Deuteronomy 16:21

53. To destroy idols and their accessories--Deuteronomy 12:2

54. Not to derive benefit from idols and their accessories--Deuteronomy 7:26

55. Not to derive benefit from ornaments of idols--Deuteronomy 7:25

56. Not to make a covenant with idolaters--Deuteronomy 7:2

57. Not to show favor to them--Deuteronomy 7:2

58. Not to let them dwell in our land--Exodus 23:33

59. Not to imitate them in customs and clothing--Leviticus 20:23

60. Not to be superstitious--Leviticus 19:26

61. Not to go into a trance to foresee events, etc.--Deuteronomy 18:10

62. Not to engage in astrology--Leviticus 19:26

63. Not to mutter incantations--Deuteronomy 18:11

64. Not to attempt to engage the dead in conversation--Deuteronomy 18:11

65. Not to consult the Ov--Deuteronomy 18:11

66. Not to consult the Yidoni--Deuteronomy 18:11

67. Not to perform acts of magic--Deuteronomy 18:10

68. Men must not shave the hair off the sides of their head--Leviticus 19:27

69. Men must not shave their beards with a razor--Leviticus 19:27

70. Men must not wear women's clothing--Deuteronomy 22:5

71. Women must not wear men's clothing--Deuteronomy 22:5

72. Not to tattoo the skin--Leviticus 19:28

73. Not to tear the skin in mourning--Deuteronomy 14:1

74. Not to make a bald spot in mourning--Deuteronomy 14:1

75. To repent and confess wrongdoings--Numbers 5:7

76. To say the Shema twice daily--Deuteronomy 6:7

77. To serve the Almighty with prayer daily--Exodus 23:25

78. The Kohanim must bless the Jewish nation daily--Numbers 6:23

79. To wear Tefillin on the head--Deuteronomy 6:8

80. To bind tefillin on the arm--Deuteronomy 6:8

81. To put a Mezuzah on each door post--Deuteronomy 6:9

82. To write a Sefer Torah--Deuteronomy 31:19

83. The king must have a separate Sefer Torah for himself--Deuteronomy 17:18

84. To have Tzitzit on four-cornered garments--Numbers 15:38

85. To bless the Almighty after eating--Deuteronomy 8:10

86. To circumcise all males on the eighth day after their birth--Leviticus 12:3

87. To rest on the seventh day--Exodus 23:12

88. Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day--Exodus 20:10

89. The court must not inflict punishment on Shabbat--Exodus 35:3

90. Not to walk more than 2000 cubits outside the city boundary on Shabbat--Exodus 16:29

91. To sanctify the day with Kiddush and Havdalah--Exodus 20:8

92. To rest from prohibited labor on Yom Kippur--Leviticus 23:32

93. Not to do prohibited labor on Yom Kippur--Leviticus 23:31

94. To afflict yourself on Yom Kippur--Leviticus 16:29

95. Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur--Leviticus 23:29

96. To rest on the first day of Passover--Leviticus 23:8

97. Not to do prohibited labor on the first day of Passover--Leviticus 23:8

98. To rest on the seventh day of Passover--Leviticus 23:8

99. Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day of Passover--Leviticus 23:8

100. To rest on Shavuot--Leviticus 23:21

101. Not to do prohibited labor on Shavuot--Leviticus 23:21

102. To rest on Rosh Hashanah--Leviticus 23:24

103. Not to do prohibited labor on Rosh Hashanah--Leviticus 23:25

104. To rest on Sukkot--Leviticus 23:35

105. Not to do prohibited labor on Sukkot--Leviticus 23:35

106. To rest on Shemini Atzeret--Leviticus 23:36

107. Not to do prohibited labor on Shemini Atzeret--Leviticus 23:36

108. Not to eat Chametz on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nissan--Deuteronomy 16:3

109. To destroy all Chametz on 14th day of Nissan--Exodus 12:15

110. Not to eat Chametz all seven days of Passover--Exodus 13:3

111. Not to eat mixtures containing Chametz all seven days of Passover--Exodus 12:20

112. Chametz should not be seen in your domain seven days--Exodus 13:7

113. Chametz should not be found in your domain seven days--Exodus 12:19

114. To eat Matzah on the first night of Passover--Exodus 12:18

115. To relate the Exodus from Egypt on that night--Exodus 13:8

116. To hear the Shofar on the first day of Tishrei (Rosh Hashanah)--Numbers 29:1

117. To dwell in a Sukkah for the seven days of Sukkot--Leviticus 23:42

118. To take up a Lulav and Etrog all seven days of Sukkot--Leviticus 23:40

119. Each man must give a half shekel annually--Exodus 30:13

120. Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins--Exodus 12:2

121. To afflict and cry out before God in times of catastrophe--Numbers 10:9

122. To marry a wife by the means prescribed in the Torah (kiddushin)--Deuteronomy 24:1

123. Not to have relations with women not thus married--Deuteronomy 23:18

124. Not to withhold food, clothing, and sexual relations from your wife--Exodus 21:10

125. To have children with one's wife--Genesis 1:28

126. To issue a divorce by means of a Get document--Deuteronomy 24:1

127. A man must not remarry his wife after she has married someone else--Deuteronomy 24:4

128. To do Yibum (marry childless brother's widow)--Deuteronomy 25:5

129. To do Chalitzah (freeing a widow from yibum)--Deuteronomy 25:9

130. The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed--Deuteronomy 25:5

131. The court must fine one who seduces a maiden--Exodus 22:15-16

132. The rapist must marry the maiden (if she chooses)--Deuteronomy 22:29

133. He is not allowed to divorce her--Deuteronomy 22:29

134. The slanderer must remain married to the wife he slandered--Deuteronomy 22:19

135. He must not divorce her--Deuteronomy 22:19

136. To fulfill the laws of the woman suspected of adultery (Sotah)--Numbers 5:30

137. Not to put oil on her meal offering--Numbers 5:15

138. Not to put frankincense on her Meal Offering--Numbers 5:15

139. Not to have sexual relations with your mother--Leviticus 18:7

140. Not to have sexual relations with your father's wife--Leviticus 18:8

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